“The team which represented SA at the Olympics is not reflective of the demographics of the country‚” said sport minister Nathi Mthethwa.
“We are taking time to engage and accelerate transformation in the sporting sector guided by the Eminent Persons Group ‚ which is monitoring the level of transformation in the sporting arena.
“Before they went to Tokyo‚ we took time and met with all the 16 national federations in the country and I can say it here and now that it was only softball which was given the nod by the EPG in terms of transformation‚ and in terms of the pillars underpinning that. “It means softball met all the transformation requirements and the rest fall in the category of conditional pass and that’s how far behind transformation is. Besides the category of those who got a conditional pass‚ there are those who performed the worst to dismal failure.
“That is the situation we are faced with and we have made it very clear to the federations that they must not pay lip service. They are asked to accelerate and on the other side‚ we are also pushing ourselves as government because the most strategic pillar of transformation and development is schools sport.
"The issue of transformation is sacrosanct, because if we take away the acceleration trajectory we won’t achieve it.”
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